Authorities investigate cause of crippling Federal Parliament IT disruption

Australia’s cyber authorities are working to establish what has caused a crippling IT disruption at Federal Parliament that has left many of the building’s occupants without access to email across the weekend.

The government has so far stopped short of publicly describing the incident as an “attack” but has acknowledged it is impacting the Parliament’s IT system.

Sources inside government have told the ABC the attack on an external provider linked to the…